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SPORTS Friday 3 May 2019
Hurricanes top Islanders 5-2; Stars beat Blues 4-2

By The Associated Press his top two lines, and the
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Se- move paid off for Dallas.
bastian Aho set up Justin Seguin skated on a line
Williams' go-ahead goal with Jason Dickinson and
with 9:45 remaining, and Mats Zuccarello. That put
the Carolina Hurricanes Hintz, instead of Seguin,
beat the New York Island- with Radulov and captain
ers 5-2 on Wednesday Jaime Benn.
night to take a 3-0 lead in Dickinson, Jason Spezza
their second-round series. and John Klingberg also
Teuvo Teravainen had two scored for the Stars, who
goals, including an empty- were down 1-0 only five
netter with 57.1 seconds minutes into the game.
remaining, Justin Faulk also Zuccarello also had two
scored and Aho added assists, giving him six in the
another empty-net goal series. Vladimir Tarasenko
with 4.8 seconds to play. had a power-play goal for
Curtis McElhinney — who at the Blues, who lost for the
35 years and 343 days old first time in their five road
became the oldest goalie games this postseason.
in NHL history to make his Robert Thomas also scored
first playoff start — stopped in the third period.
28 shots in place of Petr The Western Conference Carolina Hurricanes' Justin Williams (14) scores the game-winning goal against New York Island-
Mrazek, who is day to day semifinal series returns to St. ers goalie Robin Lehner (40), of Sweden, during the third period of Game 3 of an NHL hockey
with a lower body injury. Louis for Game 5 on Friday second-round playoff series in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Carolina won 5-2.
The wild-card Hurricanes night.q Associated Press
— in the playoffs for the
first time in a decade —
moved within a victory of a
berth in the Eastern Confer-
ence final and took a 3-0
series lead for just the sec-
ond time since they moved
to North Carolina in 1997.
After losing the first two
games of its first-round se-
ries with Washington, Caro-
lina has won seven of eight.
Game 4 is Friday night in
Raleigh.
Josh Bailey had a goal and
an assist and Devon Toews
scored on the power play
for New York. Robin Lehner
stopped 34 shots, but his
career record against the
Hurricanes fell to 0-7.
STARS 4, BLUES 1
DALLAS (AP) — Rookie
Roope Hintz scored his fifth
goal of the playoffs, Ty-
ler Seguin and Alexander
Radulov each had two as-
sists and the Stars beat the
St. Louis Blues to even the
second-round series at two
games each.
Rookie coach Jim Mont-
gomery made a significant
change by switching up